Description

DURSLEY PARSONAGE STREET
ST 7598
(south side)
5/55 Nos 60 and 62
26.1.84
GV II

Former rope walk, now shop, and market building. Early-mid C19;
C20 shop front. Flemish bond red brick with blue plinth;
corrugated iron roofs. Three-storey, reducing to 2 at rear with
open arcaded ground floor. Front: single-window fenestration above
C20 shop front; glazed 4-panel loading door to middle floor, 4-pane
sash to upper floor; brick flat arches to both with cambered
intrados. Stone coping and kneelers to parapet gable. West side:
4 weatherboarded panels alternating with brickwork. Large
casement in middle floor of each panel with smaller casement above.
Workshop glazing and glazed door to ground floor; random rubble
base walls below panels with sandstone sills. Market building at
rear is timber framed with triple clusters of timber posts;
casement fenestration above. Market area has brick and concrete
paving, stepped to facilitate the setting up of market stalls. A
modest building architecturally but important for its visual effect
and as a surviving record of former activity in this part of
Dursley. Return block at south end largely destroyed in recent
fire (1985) and no longer of special interest.

Listing NGR: ST7555898133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26578980

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair